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Multimedia delivery in the future internet
The term “Networked Media” implies that all kinds of media including text, image, 3D graphics, audio
and video are produced, distributed, shared, managed and consumed on-line through various networks,
like the Internet, Fiber, WiFi, WiMAX, GPRS, 3G and so on, in a convergent manner [1]. This white
paper is the contribution of the Media Delivery Platform (MDP) cluster and aims to cover the Networked
challenges of the Networked Media in the transition to the Future of the Internet.
Internet has evolved and changed the way we work and live. End users of the Internet have been confronted
with a bewildering range of media, services and applications and of technological innovations concerning
media formats, wireless networks, terminal types and capabilities. And there is little evidence that the pace
of this innovation is slowing. Today, over one billion of users access the Internet on regular basis, more
than 100 million users have downloaded at least one (multi)media file and over 47 millions of them do so
regularly, searching in more than 160 Exabytes1 of content. In the near future these numbers are expected
to exponentially rise. It is expected that the Internet content will be increased by at least a factor of 6, rising
to more than 990 Exabytes before 2012, fuelled mainly by the users themselves. Moreover, it is envisaged
that in a near- to mid-term future, the Internet will provide the means to share and distribute (new)
multimedia content and services with superior quality and striking flexibility, in a trusted and personalized
way, improving citizens’ quality of life, working conditions, edutainment and safety.
In this evolving environment, new transport protocols, new multimedia encoding schemes, cross-layer inthe
network adaptation, machine-to-machine communication (including RFIDs), rich 3D content as well as
community networks and the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays are expected to generate new models of
interaction and cooperation, and be able to support enhanced perceived quality-of-experience (PQoE) and
innovative applications “on the move”, like virtual collaboration environments, personalised services/
media, virtual sport groups, on-line gaming, edutainment. In this context, the interaction with content
combined with interactive/multimedia search capabilities across distributed repositories, opportunistic P2P
networks and the dynamic adaptation to the characteristics of diverse mobile terminals are expected to
contribute towards such a vision.
Based on work that has taken place in a number of EC co-funded projects, in Framework Program 6 (FP6)
and Framework Program 7 (FP7), a group of experts and technology visionaries have voluntarily
contributed in this white paper aiming to describe the status, the state-of-the art, the challenges and the way
ahead in the area of Content Aware media delivery platforms
Network-provider-independent overlays for resilience and quality of service.
PhDOverlay networks are viewed as one of the solutions addressing the inefficiency and slow
evolution of the Internet and have been the subject of significant research. Most existing
overlays providing resilience and/or Quality of Service (QoS) need cooperation among
different network providers, but an inter-trust issue arises and cannot be easily solved.
In this thesis, we mainly focus on network-provider-independent overlays and investigate
their performance in providing two different types of service. Specifically, this thesis
addresses the following problems:
Provider-independent overlay architecture: A provider-independent overlay
framework named Resilient Overlay for Mission-Critical Applications (ROMCA)
is proposed. We elaborate its structure including component composition and
functions and also provide several operational examples.
Overlay topology construction for providing resilience service: We investigate the topology design problem of provider-independent overlays aiming to provide resilience service. To be more specific, based on the ROMCA framework, we
formulate this problem mathematically and prove its NP-hardness. Three heuristics are proposed and extensive simulations are carried out to verify their effectiveness.
Application mapping with resilience and QoS guarantees: Assuming application mapping is the targeted service for ROMCA, we formulate this problem as
an Integer Linear Program (ILP). Moreover, a simple but effective heuristic is
proposed to address this issue in a time-efficient manner. Simulations with both
synthetic and real networks prove the superiority of both solutions over existing
ones.
Substrate topology information availability and the impact of its accuracy on overlay performance: Based on our survey that summarizes the methodologies available for inferring the selective substrate topology formed among a group
of nodes through active probing, we find that such information is usually inaccurate
and additional mechanisms are needed to secure a better inferred topology. Therefore, we examine the impact of inferred substrate topology accuracy on overlay
performance given only inferred substrate topology information
Approaches for Future Internet architecture design and Quality of Experience (QoE) Control
Researching a Future Internet capable of overcoming the current Internet limitations is a strategic
investment. In this respect, this paper presents some concepts that can contribute to provide some guidelines to
overcome the above-mentioned limitations. In the authors' vision, a key Future Internet target is to allow
applications to transparently, efficiently and flexibly exploit the available network resources with the aim to
match the users' expectations. Such expectations could be expressed in terms of a properly defined Quality of
Experience (QoE). In this respect, this paper provides some approaches for coping with the QoE provision
problem
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